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Message: [QUOTE="KingOtis, post: 144191, member: 1599"] You first. The compliment was nice and all, but don't act like you're debating/arguing any different than I am. We can disagree without resorting to that stuff. What other board? Josh Pace was 6-6 and was forced to play SF because a certain freshman led us to a national championship and left for the NBA. Harris was also forced to play SF because Donte Green left early. We were more effective defensively when they played SG at the top of the zone. Dave Johnson was from a different era. The team with Shumpert and Duany wasn't that good, but played a lot better with Warrick at one of the forward spots. Like Pace and Harris, Duany was always more effective as a SG. John Wallace and Otis Hill were both 6-8 (Todd Burgan was 6-7). Hill worked in the middle because he took up a lot of space, not unlike Jeremy McNeil and Arinze Onuaku. But now JB is looking for centers listed at 6-10 and up. Wes Johnson's wingspan is over 7 feet. And don't forget Rick Jackson. I can't stress length enough. All of the guys we're talking about had long arms. I'm not saying Crowder is built like Karl Malone, but he doesn't appear to have the wingspan of the prototypical SU forward. It tells me that you don't know this system very well. You say my argument is historically inaccurate, then you go on to say that a numbers of SU players (including one of your all-time favorites) were shorter than they actually were. And you're the one who said we would win a national championship with Crowder at PF. If you didn't want to defend the label, you should have used a different label or none at all. The fact is, you can't name a 6-6 PF because there hasn't been one. We've had some SFs that size (Lucious Jackson's name hasn't been mentioned yet), but our best teams had taller forwards with long wingspans. And it's clear to see that JB is going for the tallest, longest, most athletic players he can find at every position on the floor right now. [/QUOTE]

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